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Get the Habit single work   musical theatre   revue/revusical   humour  
Issue Details: First known date: 1918... 1918 Get the Habit
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Revusical.

Little is known about this sequel to Le Blanc's Do it Now revusical. The Brisbane Courier records that Get the Habit was produced for the first time in Australia during the 1918 Empire Theatre season. No other revivals have been located to this date and the only insight provided in reviews during the week of 23-29 November is the following: 'Its action will disclose what a crazy Russian Nihilist did with certain missing stock certificates' (23 November 1918, p.12).

Production Details

  • 1918: Empire Theatre, Brisbane, 23-29 November.

    • Director Bert Le Blanc; Producer Fullers' Theatres Ltd.
    • Troupe Bert Le Blanc's Musical Travesty Stars.
    • Cast incl. Bert Le Blanc (Ike Cohen), Jake Mack (Morris Levi), Mike Connors, Queenie Paul, Lillian Colenzo, Winnie Knight [aka Mrs Bert Le Blanc], Lance Vane, Will Raynor, and the Pony Ballet (Violet Penson, Rita Penson, Vera Tandy, Rose Brennan, Hilda Lynn, Annie Henry).

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First known date: 1918
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Do it Now Bert Le Blanc , Bert Le Blanc's Travesty Stars , Fullers' Theatres , 1918 single work musical theatre revue/revusical humour

Revusical.

Described in the Brisbane Courier as a 'burlesque revue', Do it Now is:

The first episode in a story which is revealed more full in the sequel Get the Habit. The revusical's setting is in the stockbroking office of Will Cheatem, with Ike Cohen (Bert Le Blanc) and Morris Levi (Jake Mack) as unsuspecting speculators who soon learn that stockbroking is the art of buying stock that doesn't exist with money you don't possess and selling it for more than it cost (11 November 1918, p.5).
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Note:
This entry has been sourced from research undertaken by Dr Clay Djubal into Australian-written popular music theatre (ca. 1850-1930). See also the Australian Variety Theatre Archive
Last amended 20 Jun 2014 12:35:27
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